External HDD error- Not accessible, parameters incorrect

Q:External HDD error- Not accessible, parameters incorrect

Hi, I am having a problem with my external hard drive not working. My laptop cannot read the drive, it does not display properly in my computer and when I try to click on it it freezes and the message appears "Drive is not accessible, parameters are incorrect". I used it about three weeks ago and it was fine so I don't know what happened. I always make sure to safely remove it and am careful not to damage it. The light still still turns on when plugged in and I can hear it trying to work.

I really want to keep the files as they are from my previous laptop which died and do not have them stored anywhere else. My fault I know, but I had thought external hard drives were more reliable and I do not like the idea of cloud storage. Because of this I am hesitant to try CHKDSK. Is there anything else I can do to recover the files or fix the drive? If I take it to a computer technician would they be able to do it?

I am getting "E:\ is not Accessible. Incorrect Function" message when i try to burn a CD or DVD on an external DVD\RW that works on other PC's. Last week I tried a drag and drop in windows explorer that failed. since then my internal and external drives won't burn. they don't even show up in my Roxio as burn devices. I did not have any problems prior to the drag and drop failure. I have since uninstalled all of the burning softwares that were on my pc. I know it is not a hardware problem as I am able to burn to the external on other pc's. any ideas??? please help.

A:Getting E:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function message on an external burner

This may work

I had the same problem and recently cured it by going to the Drive letter in Windows Explorer and right clicking on it. Go to Properties; Click on Recording; Check "Enable CD recording on this drive". If it wasn't clicked before this will probably do it.

Hello The following is my laptop spec Technology TL- Ghz BG of Ram Physical Address Extension Matshita DVD-Ram UJ- H Windows XP Professional Version Service Pack Now whenever I insert a cd on my Matshita DVD-Ram UJ- H it shows this error message quot D is not accessible Incorrect function quot I experience the same whenever I insert a blank dvd rw However if the dvd rw is not blank then I am able to see the function is accessible. Error: not Incorrect D:\ contents of the dvd rw disc without getting this error What Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function is wrong On my Windows Registry I have instances of this HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Class D E -E - CE-BFC - BE and on more than one of then the quot Upper Filter quot exists therefore I am unable to decide which one s quot Upper quot I should delete to see if the problem gets fixed or not I have seen on many forums others experiencing the same and getting advised to uninstall Roxio but I don t think I have it or the Nero because I can t find them on my Start- gt All Programs And I don t think that me not having a cd burner software is the problem because like I mentioned before I am able to see the Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function contents of a dvd disc inserted on my dvd drive providing the disc is not empty I have seen the following solution mentioned on the internet quot Got to the Drive letter in Windows Explorer and right clicking on it Go to Properties Click on Recording Check quot Enable CD recording on this drive quot But the problem is I can see only this much on my WinXp SP Windows Explorer- gt DVD-Ram and after right clicking on it - gt Properties but there is no quot recording quot tab Therefore I cannot check the quot Enable CD recording on this drive quot option I am really stuck now Can some techie specialist help Thank You nbsp

A:Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function

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Hello The following Error: D:\ function. Incorrect not accessible. is is my laptop spec Technology TL- Ghz BG of Ram Physical Address Extension Mat a DVD-Ram UJ- Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. H Windows XP Professional Version Service Pack Now whenever I insert a cd on my Mat a DVD-Ram UJ- H it shows this error message quot D is not accessible Incorrect function quot I experience the same whenever I insert a blank dvd rw However if the dvd rw is not blank then I am able to see the contents of the dvd rw disc without getting this error What is wrong On my Windows Registry I have instances of this HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Class D E -E - CE-BFC - BE and on more than one of then the quot Upper Filter quot exists therefore Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. I am Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. unable to decide which one s quot Upper quot I should delete to see if the problem gets fixed or not I have seen on many forums others experiencing the same and getting advised to uninstall Roxio but I don t think I have it or the Nero because I can t find them on my Start- gt All Programs And I don t think that me not having a cd burner software is the problem because like I mentioned before I am able to see the contents of a dvd disc inserted on my dvd drive providing the disc is not empty I have seen the following solution mentioned on the internet quot Got to the Drive letter in Windows Explorer and right clicking on it Go to Properties Click on Recording Check quot Enable CD recording on this drive quot But the problem is I can see only this much on my WinXp SP Windows Explorer- gt DVD-Ram and after right clicking on it - gt Properties but there is no quot recording quot tab Therefore I cannot check the quot Enable CD recording on this drive quot option I am really stuck now Can some techie specialist help Thank You nbsp

A:Error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.

It could be a firmware issue, check the PC manufacturers site for an update, if it is a store bought DVD drive, check the manufacturers site of the drive for a firmware upgrade.

Just recently i began getting an error while trying to view blank cds or dvds and WMP11 does not recognize any drives capable of burning.

d: not accessible incorrect function error

It is a LiteOn DVD-RAM drive. This is the first problem i have had with it and it seems to be XP specific. Vista has no problems. I can burn with Nero 8 in XP with no problems. Also Kubuntu burns fine and reads everything.

I tried uninstalling the drive and restarting with no luck. Is there any other drivers i can reinstall? I put in new firmware for the drive trying to get it to work with no success.

whenever i try to play media player, i get this pop up box saying parameters incorrect, can anybody please explain, and advise what i am supposed to do. i have windows vista premium 32-bit thank you.

A:Parameters is incorrect

Its showing an error message for an R:\ drive. Do you have any devices attached using the letter R? Check "My Computer".Also, it could be that your shortcut got messed up. Click the start button and type:wmplayer.exeThen press enter. If it works, tell me.

i ran spybot search and destroy software on my desktop. when i restarted my computer its showing me error message again and again , cant load command.com "parameters is incorrect". i can be able to logon in safe mode so i uninstalled that software from my computer, its installation files from C drive. but still showing same probelm. could anybody please help me in this.
Thanks

Hi I have a WD hard disk, recently I was in a busy cyber cafe to print something, the man who was printing pulled the hardisk out without safely removing, now windows asks me to format it and it has become RAW.
There is also an error saying that it is inaccessible every time I open it in mycomputer or even when I use run.
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A:External Hardisk error 'e:\ is not accessible'

1. Do not panic. Keep your cool.

2. Do not format that volume/drive.

3. Do not on any count run check disk.

Now you said RAW. Please post a screenshot of how your drive/s look in Disk Management. I want to confirm that it indeed is RAW.

Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Once confirmed, you can straightaway head to the topic Recovery with Partition Wizard: SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GBin my thread Recover a flash drive turned RAW ? Partition Wizard and TestDisk. and use the Partiton Recovery Wizard.

Download and install the the latest version of MiniTools Partition Wizard 7.8 from Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition. to run the Partition Recovery Wizard in it

This is my first post I read through the post labeled D is not accessible Incorrect function and did everything people suggested there but I am still having the same problem except mine is a little different I don t know if it is a hardware or software or driver or what internal My not error accessible giving me G&F:\is external message & burner are the problem is My external and internal burner have error G burner in the computer amp F external burner is not accessible Incorrect function My other internal player works though My internal & external burner are giving me error message G&F:\is not accessible It plays music but I can t view pictures I have an external burner hooked up thru a USB port and I have a cd dvd burner on my computer Both drives are giving my the same error message I don t know what to do I have tried different usb ports plugged the external burner into different ones I tried buying a different usb cord for the burner nope I have tried different cds and dvds different brands and types I have tried support microsoft com fixit website which helped a lot I couldn t even play music until I used that website Now I can at least play music I just can t burn anything btw that website is awesome for a lot of things I have tried unistalling Roxio because someone said that might be my problem Nope I have tried updating my drivers I have tried going to device manager and seeing if there is any exclamation points but they say everything is working properly lol I don t know what else to do or what the problem could be because it is happening on both and internal and external burner I thought I might have to replace my internal burner but now I don t think that is the problem at all BTW I have a Sony Vaio PCV- with a Toshiba DVD-Rom SD R and a Samsung CD-Rom SC- C And I have been to all three of their websites looking for driver updates or firmware or something to help and have downloaded everything they had and nothing has fixed my problem I am running XP Pro I am completely out of ideas Please help me I really don t have the money to spend and get my computer fixed and I don t think that would fix it because it is having trouble with the external one too Any help would be sooooo appreciated Thank you in advance nbsp

Hi all wave My findings I received a cd from a friend with pictures on it If I insert the CD into my labtop and go to Control Panel gt D-drive DVD-Ram reader I not Function accessible - D:/ Incorrect get an error DLA cann t use this disk since it s not formatted and in after another try D not accessible - Incorrect Function and that s the error I keep getting When I tried to set up a virtul computer with VMWare a few months ago a CD with XP on it was not accepted No problems putting in a music cd in or a dvd system works fine Cannot read burned CD s music or whatever Tried the following went into device manager right clicked on the CD DVD drive and D:/ not accessible - Incorrect Function clicked uninstall Restarted the computer then windows should say quot new hardware found quot and let Windows install the CD DVD drive automatically Didn t work out the way I wanted same error My Computer right clicking on the drive and selecting quot Properties quot then click on the Record Recording tab There should be a check mark there about CD recording - remove it and click OK then test to see if it works Still the same error With the help of the Eventviewer I checked ATAPI-errors there were none Checked if the recording tab of the CD DVD drive was activated it was Deleted Upper and Lower filters in the registry Removed all trace sfrom Nero Would appreciate any advice help P S If this is not the correct forum for this topic please let me know nbsp

A:D:/ not accessible - Incorrect Function

How old is your computer?
I had a problem a while back, about 3 weeks after getting a new computer, my DVDRW drive refused to read dvds but would read CDs, which really took the biscuit, so I phoned computer company and they said that it was a dodgy one and sent me a new one, and it worked fine. Do you have any other issues with the drive? maybe you need a new one? have you uninstalled/reinstalled any appropriate drivers?

My CD-RW was working fine until it just suddenly stopped working properly. When I insert a blank CD-R into the drive i cannot open the drive and instead I get a message "D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect Function." Any disc with files on it work properly but not blank ones. I really need to burn something so any help will be appreciated.

This is the error message I get when I try to use E:\ DVD+RW drive. I can't use Windows Explorer to enable CD Recording because I get the same error message. Properties indicates that E:\ is full with no space to record. DS tells me that some programs used can mess it up this way, and he's trying to remember how he fixed it before.

Another Issue -Iomega External DVD+-RWThe problem is that i can play CDs and DVDs using this drive but when i put a blank CD or DVD and try to open it - it gives an error G:\ is not accessible Incorrect function tried to delete the upper/lower filter still not able to open a blank media.

Anyone with the same issue - what can be done --

WaitingJERIN

A:G:\ is not accessible Incorrect function

Try installing a trial version of Nero, but only install the BurningROM portion, not all the other bloated junk. BurningROM is still one of the best out there.

Or try DeepBurner Free and see if this helps.

DeepBurner won't let you format and use the disk as drive (that I know of) but it may allow you to burn a folder and files etc. to it. Same with BurningROM.

I personally have never liked Windows Builtin Burning Feature, never had that much success with it.

Other than that,,,,,,, may be a problem with the drive itself. Or check the properties of the drive and make sure it is set to allow burning.

I have Win XP Pro w Service Pack installed Service Pack is from Microsoft Update-my original XP Pro came with SP which I have the cd and a cd-rom drive cd r rw drive and floppy drive For the past weeks whenever I try to access any not accessible. E:\is function. Incorrect of those drives I get the quot E is E:\is not accessible. Incorrect function. not accessible Incorrect function quot message It can be E CD-RW D CD-ROM or A floppy drive The only way I can access any of these drives is to put the CD Rom or Floppy in the drive and then re-boot my computer This message comes up whether it is a cd that I burned E:\is not accessible. Incorrect function. an audio cd from the store or the actual software cd I followed a quot Tech Support Guy quot member s instructions to restore possible over-written files by doing quot sfc scannow quot command with my original XP Pro cd-rom with Service Pack and about different times during the scan the message reads quot Files that are required for Windows to run properly must be copied to the DLL cache Insert your Windows XP CD-rom now quot Nothing happens except I keep getting the same message I put the XP CD-Rom in the drive reboot and then do the scan After the scan I can read the XP CD-Rom but I m not sure what I need to do next Any help is greatly appreciated nbsp

A:E:\is not accessible. Incorrect function.

See if you can obtain the brand and model number of the motherboard and install the drivers for that board.

Sounds like the IDE controllers may have become corrupted OR the partition table of the harddrive may have become corrupted as well.

Try to obtain the motherboard drivers first. You can download them to your desktop in a new folder and run the drivers from there.

My trusty Dell is at it again My Cd-r rw DVD r etc drive refuses to read ANYTHING blank cd s blank dvd s music cd s movies you name it I m running XP pro and tried the handy-dandy windows trouble-shooter thing which eventually left me with the comforting message quot windows is unable to solve your problem quot So now I am here I don t think I have an SCSI devices I think that s what they re called or if I do I don t know how to find them Also I already uninstalled and reinstalled accessible. D:\ not Incorrect function. the CD-DVD-read write drive itself other webpages I went to said something about this possibly being caused by roxio ez cd creator or some such nonsense--I do not have this program thus I am not helped Any info you guys can give D:\ not accessible. Incorrect function. me will be greatly appreciated While waiting on responses I will faithfully continue my attempt at fixing the problem myself Again ANY help will be greatly appreciated I am a college and thus right now is not the best time to be having computer problems Thanks Cal nbsp

Today iTunes was refusing to burn my E:\ accessible. Function Incorrect is not playlists and gave me the error message quot Disk burner or software not found quot I quot repaired quot the iTunesi nstallation using add remove programs -Didn t resolve the problem I went on to iTunes preferences - burning tab and all settings were normal My drive was specified burn speed etc -I went to Device Manager and uninstalled the E:\ is not accessible. Incorrect Function drive and then use add new hardware to install it again -Restarted the PC -Not only has this not fixed the iTunes problem when I put a blank disk into the drive and open it from My Computer I get the following error message quot E is not accessible Incorrect function quot When I right-click and select properties there is no recording tab - when you click the hardware tab it disappears When a blank disk is inserted the drive is labelled CD Drive when I take it out it is labelled CD-RW drive Still plays audio and data CD s perfectly I found this article http support microsoft com default aspx scid kb EN-US but this doesn t really apply to me as I don t use Roxio Easy CD Creator It was working perfectly yesterday - any advice nbsp

Hey guys, I recently installed Nero 6 Ultra Edition. Afterwards, while trying to burn a small amount of files via the built in Windows buring utility, I tried to access my CD rom drive, and I get this error: G:\ Is Not Accessible - Incorrect Function.... I am seriously worried. Is there anyway to fix this? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Here is a screenshot:

For years I have been able to burn CDs on my Lite on SOHR 5239S CD-RW. Suddenly, the drive will not open. When an audio CD is inserted, it picks up the music. When a blank CD-R is inserted, iTunes will recognize it. However, opening the CD-RW drive with a blank CD-R prompts the message:

D:\ is not accessible.Incorrect function. Click to expand...

I have tried changing the registry values per Microsoft's instructions to no avail. I am running XP SP3 and also have a DVD drive installed. What else do you need to know?Thanks.

Dell XPS 410 1GB-Ram 232-HD XP Home Edition. I have used Nero7 fore a long time and used DVD+RW for DVD burning. The last item I burned was an ISO image of SQL Server2008. I then installed the express personal stand alone edition. I Have not made any other changes, but now my E: drive will not read a blank DVD+RW's or DVD-RW's. Every time I try to burn a DVD, I get a put a DVD in the drive window. If I try to open the Drive I get the response of (E:\ is not accessible Incorrect function. It will still read and play previously burned DVDs. My other drive will reply to put a disk in the drive. I'm really confused. Is this a setting, command, or could my drive be going bad. My system is 4yrs old. Drive TSST corp DVD+-RW TS-H553A .Any help would be very much appreciated.

A:E:\ is not accessible Incorrect function

Try removing Nero, and using something else. I used to have this issue with older software on updated windows. I once lost all my CD-ROM's when using an outdated Roxio, and that was fixed with updating. I would recommend doing the same.

My PC's removable drives are not working properly
The floppy drive, cd rom drive and even the USB flash drive are having problems reading any media.
When media is inserted into either of the drives a pop up error message says
a: inaccessible, incorrect function
the disks work fine on different pc's
any ideas?

A:X: in accessible , incorrect function

Have you checked in the device manager for problems with the devices? Any recent hardware/software changes?

my laptop(win xp service pack 2002) is not reading anymore cd and dvd's.when i insert a cd or dvd in to the cd/dvd-ram my laptop is making the sound like it's reading the cd.... but at the end it doesn't.and when i'm looking in my computer...it's writing on cd/dvd-ram icon CD DRIVE(E) but when i try to acces the cd/dvd-ram i get the message E:\ is not accessible incorrect function .i.ve tried to reistall the windows xp..but i'm having the same problem.please give me a solution.thank's any way!

Hello everybody I have that message showing and I don t know how to fix it The cause is undoubtedly my installing and removing multiple writing burning programs The attempts at fixing have been Uninstall and reinstall update and rollback driver updated from manufacturer site as well system restore multiple bug scans driver updates for Nero remove upper amp lower filters from registry a couple of things with goat s blood and candles you get the picture It all started when I couldn t get my standalone DVD player to recognize the disc I burned with Nero then I tried using other programs I think I need newer media and newer dvd players I can burn discs but it bothers me that I get this message and the recording Incorrect is not accessible. D:\ function. tab is missing from properties-oh yeah services gt IMAPI gt start Well I can still burn amp stuff so I m not upset just curious as to the etiology of this amp solution Thanks all amp hope you all have more willpower to get away from this thing D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. more often than I grinthumb nbsp

A:D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.

Hi Tony777 and welcome to the TS Forum :wave:

Have you ever considered that the drive may be faulty. ??

just a thought oh whilst your here would you please take a few moments to read the following. It will help to make your Techspot experience a more pleasurable one.

I have seen similar threads, but my OS is Windows 2000. I did highlight the D drive, right click, click on Properties, clicked on the Hardware tab, highilghted the manufacturer, clicked properties, clicked properties again and then checked the box for Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device.

When I went back to Windows Explorer and clicked on the D-drive, I got the same error.

Suggestions?

A:D:\ is not accessible Incorrect function

Try disabling DMA (Direct memory access) for the drive.

I had the 'Incorrect function' problem with a new DVD burner when trying to access burned dvds. I'm using windows 2000 and I tried ejecting and reloading the disc and it didn't work. At one point it was able to show me a directory on the dvd+r disc but then when i tried to open it it said something like 'the folder is missing or has been moved'. Then I remembered i had enabled DMA (Direct memory access) because the dvd burning app (Nero 7) suggested it. So I ran the 'Nero DMA Manager' and disabled DMA for both of my cd/dvd drives (one cd burner and one dvd/cd burner). This fixed the problem completely. But I might try enabling it just for the dvd burner on a hunch that that might work too.

My cd-burner is currently showing the message D:/ not accessible - Incorrect Function whenever i put in a cd-rw and attempt to open the drive.

After I reinstalled the OS (XP), it worked fine. However, I was so stupid that i uninstalled the Roxio software that came along with the OS. That's when it showed the message.

When I bought the computer, it came along with a Roxio EasyCd Creator 5. This was optional since you could already burn CD's. I have tried installing/uninstalling that several times but it was no use. I have also installed/ reinstalled the hardware too but it was no use either.

Can anyone help me? I am unable to write files to my DVD/CD writeable internal disc. I have enable the device but I still receive the same message. Does my Slysoft/Any DVD software cause the problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
tdennis

A:E:/ is not accessible incorrect function

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With regards to your problem, what program are you using to write the files?

I am trying to copy files/folders to a disc, but each time I do so I get the error message "D:not acessible, incorrect function. Using Windows XP.Went via device manager and all is working properly. can anyone help?

A:D:Not accessible incorrect function

You cannot copy data to a CD-R or DVD-R disc like you can with a USB thumb drive or a floppy disk.

You need to use a disc burning program to burn the data to the disc.

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 6.83.4312 is a free and very user-friendly one that I personally use.

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Is the D: drive in your computer capable of burning discs?

Is it a standard CDROM or DVDROM drive or is it a CDRW or DVDRW drive?

I use Windows Explorer Using Windows XP to save files to a cd-r When I want to save files to a cd-r all I do is insert the cd-r copy is D:\ accessible function not incorrect the files to D drive and click on quot Write these files to the cd quot then I m allowed to add more files or use the files on the cd Now when I insert a cd-r in and go to my D drive it says quot D is not accessible incorrect function quot well for a blank cd it says that With a cd-r with files already on it I cannot add files to the cd because it says the cd is read only even though it s not Before this happened I used Roxio for the first time to see how it burned files to a cd But the program doesn t seem to let cds be readable to other computers that don t use Roxio I just want to use Windows Explorer again D:\ is not accessible incorrect function and get rid of that error message Maybe Roxio is causing this problem I m not sure nbsp

I have a DVD-RW internal drive in my system. When I insert a disk, e.g., a DVD, it plays fine. But when I go to access that drive to burn something to it I get the following drop down message: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect Function. Can the Techguys tell me what's up? System has Windows XP Home.

I have a PacificDigital external dvd burner usb 2.0. I am able to burn dvd's that will play on any of my dvd players but will not play on the burner unit. It plays standard movie dvd's without any problem. PacificDigital has since gone out of business and their products are without any support. I am runnung Microsoft XP Home Edition. Your thoughts please

If I drag and drop files to the CD/DVD burner I get the message ~ "G:\is not accessible - incorrect function" and occasionally it asks me to insert a new disc when there is one in there. It has no problem playing pre-burned or commercial CD/DVD's. I can burn using other software such as Veritas. I checked in Device Manager and there seem to be no problems. I've read a similar post which advises looking into the device properties and ensuring that 'recording' is enabled but I don't have a 'recording' tab in the drive properties. Any clues where the problem may be?

CD/DVD DRIVER-W (G not accessible-incorrect function." If I insert the new blank CD to the CD/DVD burner I get the message ~ "G:\is not accessible - incorrect function" and occasionally it asks me to insert a new disc when there is one in there. It has no problem playing pre-burned or commercial CD/DVD's. I can burn using other software such as Nero. Any clues where the problem may be?Please help me sir.

I have been trying to drag and drop and or copy .EXE into my DVD Rom, however i am getting this error message. It will not open a DVD if clicked on without the error.D:/ is not accessible- incorrect function. It is a Matshita DVD-Rom UJ-842 in a Lenovo T 60 Laptop.I am able to burn ISO images to the DVD's. I can as well read from the DVD's.

To drag and drop files onto a DVD in Windows XP you need special packet writing software install such as Nero's INCD or Roxio's Drag n' Drop, or Sonic's DLA(now part of Roxio). Windows XP only has limited burning capability for CD-R/CD-RW discs, but non for DVD's.

You're better off burning a DVD with either the Lenovo provided software OR a free alternative such as CDBurnerXP: http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home

My OS Windows -bit SP External Hard Drive LaCie Hard Disk Quadra TB Can't Intialized 'Incorrect Hard Initialize External - Not Error - Drive - Function' http www External Hard Drive - Not Intialized - Can't Initialize - 'Incorrect Function' Error lacie com au support support manifest htm id Problem I have TB HDD Both LaCie Different Models I share a USB cable between them when I need External Hard Drive - Not Intialized - Can't Initialize - 'Incorrect Function' Error to use one I unplug the cable and plug it into the other HDD I went on holiday my computer was off for weeks Came back and now one of my HDD is not working Model listed above I went to computer management and checked device manager - Disk Drives LaCie Hard Drive USB Device - Universal Serial Bus controllers USB Mass Storage Device is plugged in Storage Disk Management Disk - Unknown - Not Initialized when I try to initialize it Incorrect Function error appears This isn t a new HDD I ve used it for roughly years it serves as a Backup Device It is very worrying that my backup device would crash or fail or whatever the problem is I have looked at other threads on the forum with similar problems http social technet microsoft com Forums en-US winservermanager thread bd -c e - -a f-c f cd e b http social technet microsoft com Forums en itprovistahardware thread c ea - f - d - - b cb ac http social technet microsoft com Forums en w itprovirt thread bf a c- f - eb -b bb- a bb ddd http social technet microsoft com Forums en-US w itprohardware thread ba - fb - -b a - fef dda ffb Following the troubleshooting of this thread http social technet microsoft com Forums en-US w itprohardware thread ba - fb - -b a - fef dda ffb My results Also I ve tried plugging it into my laptop doesn t work on there either So the problem is definitely with the HDD Question Does anyone know how to fix this problem Will formatting the HDD fix the problem or is this a hardware issue If so is there even a way to format it Because the only way I know how to format a HDD is through computer management and that is even working in this situation Needless to say formatting the HDD is kind of a last resort I have around GB of data on this HDD that I would rather not losing The disk hasn t moved in months I don t see what would have caused this Thanks in advance nbsp

I am having a problem accessing my CD drive and my Floppy drive Using XP Home on an HP laptop When I click on My Computer and click on either floppy or Cd drive Drive not incorrect Getting function messgae accessible I get a little box that says quot F is not accessible Incorrect function quot It gives this message on both Floppy and CD drives The Cd drive is either DVD Getting Drive not accessible incorrect function messgae or CD and it will play a DVD But not a CD When I go to Getting Drive not accessible incorrect function messgae Properties it shows that nothing is in the drive It will recognize a CD if I reboot since I put in my XP disk and rebooted and did a repair on the ops system so the bios sees the drive The repair did not take care of the problem If I go to Control Panel and Admin Tools and then Disk management it shows the CD drive and if I put a CD in it it sees the CD and shows the megabit size but if I right click and say open I get the same incorrect function message Any suggestions nbsp

I have an extremely annoying problem at the moment when trying to record files on to my cd. I do everything in the normal way : click on the file I want to copy to CD, then under File and Folder Tasks I click Copy this file, then in the Copy items dialog box I click the cddrive. I then get the message R:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.. I also get the same problem if I just try to drag a picture or file onto the cd icon...

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Hopefully it's quite simple to remedy, but I'm baffled. I think this problem has existed for quite some time, but at the moment I really need to use this facility.

I'm not really gemmed up on computers, so if anyone can help me out please keep it simple.

I can not access DVD media (read or write). I have:1) Uninstalled all 3rd party burning software.2) Deleted the upper and lower filters.3) Went into the properties of each drive and enabled recording.4) Edited the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives\ and changed the Drive Type so that one drive is a 2 and the other is a 3.

Win XP Home was clean installed in July '08. All updates are current. Currently running SP3. Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus and no viruses have been found.

Ok I read through many other threads and googled for help without results Everyone seems to fix their problem by deleting some registry keys etc However I had recently made a clean install from Vista to XP Before I formatted I could drag and drop to blank function) Problem (Drive Incorrect not Burner - DVD accessible, is CDs and DVDs however now Whenever I do that it d say I is not accessible Incorrect function When I look in device manager there are no yellow exclamation marks around DVD Burner Problem - (Drive is not accessible, Incorrect function) any of my hardware The only burning software I have on my computer are DVDFab and ConvertXtoDvd though if that s the case Can anyone please help me make my drive usable again thank you Note It can read data CDs and game CDs Also I have DVD drive However when I click quot MY Computer quot there is DVD Drive D and DVD-RAM I When I insert a disc in it ll appear in DVD-RAM I but when I uninstall the driver for DVD-RAM I it ll appear on DVD Drive D However when I reboot windows the driver will reinstall itself nbsp

Hi I need not Hard Drive Function accessible: Incorrect folder help on an external hard drive problem I m having now I have a Western Digital gb IDE hard drive in an external USB enclosure I set it to CS on the jumpers and it detected the drive and I was able to access all files with some permission issues Then a power Hard Drive folder not accessible: Incorrect Function outage occurred and when I connect to the drive it runs but I can only access certain files and folders Other folders take along while to access then I get this message folder not accessible Incorrect Function see image attached I ve tried connecting the drive to another computer and it opens the folder but it s blank The drive itself indicates that there s about gb stored The folder i m trying to access has about gb of data Also when I Hard Drive folder not accessible: Incorrect Function try to safely remove hardware for this drive it stalls for a long time I ve also tried another smaller gb WD hard drive and it works fine when I connect to the enclosure although it s a blank drive with no data When trying to safely remove it works fine It s strange that the drive was able to be accessed prior to the power outage and now it s not and seems really slow I m running Vista Home Please help Siedog nbsp

A:Hard Drive folder not accessible: Incorrect Function

You may need to Take Ownership of your folder and grant yourself Full Control privileges

See these two links:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html

I have driver magician but never says anything about updating........ the drive in not accesible only whith any type of type of blank disk not cds or dvds )= and I have plenty of stuff i need to burn.....help me and thank you

Win 7
Toshiba Qosmio x500
When i plug in an external pen drive or hdd to any of the USB Ports. a box opens & says
" Location is not Available, F:/ is Not Accessible, Access is Denied"
I can view its icon in My Comp. but when i double click, error occurs.
This started happening all of a sudden. It was working fine until yesterday.
Plz help. :'(
Bobbina....

A:Any External Hard drive shows " Location is not Available, F:/ is Not Accessible, Access is Denied", this Error is shown all USB ports.

Hi Vincent,
Thanks for your input.
My problem has been solved.
1 chap from another forum suggested it may have been a fault with my AntiVirus.
He made me check the client policy for USB Auto On/Off for external drive scanning.
he suggested me some changes, & now all my usb external drives work... :)
Yayyy..!!!
Thanks all of you.
Regards.
Bobbina..x
(P.s.: hope the problem does not pop-up again...)

I have a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop with Windows XP (last 3 years). It has now stopped recognising any blank cd or dvd and gives the error message "D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function". It can however read/play cd's or dvd's that have data/music/movies on them.

I have gone to Dell's support site and applied firmware updates for CD/DVD drive. I have also previously changed D drive setting to "enable burning of CD's".

The D: drive shows up in Windows Explorer but I cannot even select to. I click on D drive and cursor jumps back to C:, so I cant even get to it.

I have CD/RW and DVD/RW drives. When I try to copy files or images from my hard drive to one of these I get the message "D:\is not accessible Incorrect Function." OS is XPI can play DVD and CDs that I have recorded previouly but am unable to write to or access these drives any longer. Any ideas appreciated.

When trying to copy files to a CD to take a local drugstore for printing I was unable to access the D drive. We kept getting a message:"D:\ is not accessible - incorrect function". Eventually we moved the files to a shared folder and I accessed them from our other computer and did the copying on that computer's drive. The drive on the original computer does work - I put in two different cds - one an audio CD and the other witha Flash presentation on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The computer in Question is a Dell desktop. The computer also has Roxio CD creator on there - that wouldn't even let me copy pictures with the version that we have.

Thanks

A:CD-RW drive is "not accessible" - incorrect function

Go into Device Manager and open up the DVD/CDROM heading. What does it say about your drive?

This problem just happened recently. Every time I put a blank CD in my CD drive, a message appears saying "E:\ is not accessible. Incorrect Function. I can watch DVDs but it won't recognize any blank CDs I put.

Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance.

A:Drive is not accessible - "incorrect function"

First try this from the Windows Explorer after you have inserted a disc.

I have a WD My Passport Ultra 1 Tb External HD. My Win 7 Home Premium Days it is Inaccessible. and shows up as NTFS in windows explorer/My Computer. I have tried various things to access the drive.
Transfer OwnershipChange Drive LetterAdjust Permissions

Nothing has worked.

I can access it in safe mode but all the folders I copy to my internal hard drive cannot be accessed.

I do not want to Reformat the drive and lose all the pictures of my kids and family. This is the only place they are stored.

I am at a loss please help.

A:External HD not Accessible

The drive may be corrupted. If you can access the drive in Safe Mode, go to Start/Search and type CMD, right click the CMD results and Run As Administrator. In the Elevated Command Prompt type the drive letter of the External (eg) G: and press enter (eg) G:\> at this prompt type chkdsk /R and press enter. Now type a Y for Yes to Unmount the drive. Check Disk will try and fix any errors this will take some time. You can also download WD's DataLifeGuard for Windows and run the Short and Long tests on the drive, if either test fails the drive needs to be replaced.

I've been using this external HD for a while.Yersterday while in the middle of something,I couldn't get back to the device.If I intend to get a new HD,is there any way I can retrieve all the files myself or I have to bring it out to a technician?Can they do it?Thanks Tbone

A:External HD USB not accessible

You may be able to remove the drive from its case and attach it internally or via USB adapter.

I need to transfer files from a hard drive with Windows 98 (Quantum brand) to a hard drive with XP (Seagate brand). I have an adapter to connect a HD to another computer with a USB connector. I tried with three different jumper configurations (master, slave, cable select) on the external drive and different USB slots but it still didn't work. XP recognizes that a USB storage device is connected to the computer, but in My Computer the removable hard drive does not show up. What am I missing?

A:External Hd Not Accessible

Are you connecting through a USB hub or a multi-card reader? Try using different plugs. Does the drive show up in Drive Management? What other USB devices are connected? Disconnect them and retry. I'll admit, when it first happened to me I got so p.o.'d I went out and got a USB add-on card for 8 bucks. After I did that I found this site:www.usbman.comMost of the problems are caused by IRQ conflicts. Take some time and search around that site for some tipsMarkEdit: typo

Hello Everybody I was using Dell Inspiron with Windows XP gb with Hitachi Travel Star HD Model No HTS J AT also called K HD with RPM I accidentally broke the computer I just dropped it The screen was broken but It would still turn on So HD External accessible not i managed to get the Hard drive out from that laptop Then I ordered another Laptop from Dell this time Inspiron with Windows Vista Basic gb Intel core duo T GHZ mEMORY GB AND BIT OPERATING SYSTEM wHEN i WAS BUYING DELL Online I asked them External HD not accessible if i cud get all the info from my old laptop to the new one and they said yes just get a harddrive enclosure Now I got the Ultra USB STORAGE HIGH SPEED ENCLOSURE connected the harddrive but wudnt read it so with online info and help from various forums I learned that I must change from sata to ATA IDE SO i CHANGED THAT IN BIOS so downloaded necessary drivers And now I can see the F DRIVE IN My Computer But When i right click to open it it wud say that there are no files when i check the properties it wud say used space and available space as zero but when i scan the F DRIVE with mccaffee security centre it checks all the files I have almost over gb of files pics and songs in it as i was using the old laptop for over years I just had an administrator account which External HD not accessible was password protected in my old laptop I would really appreciate if you can give me some ideas about how I cud get all the info from the old laptops harddrive I tried to download PC Inspector software but that wud do nothing to any of the drives Please help me Waiting for your reply

A:External HD not accessible

Besides several free and shareware data recovery programs available for download you can elect to boot from a live Linux cd like ubuntu or Knoppix since that will easily read various partition types and simply copy and paste files from the old to new. You first have to see each hard drive mounted however which is easy by going into Applications>computer while booted live and double click on each drive.

Immediately you will see the "can't mount drive" message while a new icon suddenly appears on the desktop for each one. Those are simply double clicked on there to end seeing two explorer like windows come up. One old tutorial explains how to use Knoppix while ubuntu will easily work as well. Computer First Aid Using Knoppix

I have 2 SATA hard drives inserted into a docking station connected to my laptop with USB
both were working fine until a week ago then both stopped working altogether
Today I switched everything off and tried re-seating them one by one
One came up as working fine but the second one came up that it was unformatted
Knowing I have important files on the disc I have no intention of formatting it
I tried again and now get the following error:
K:/ is not accessible. The disc structure is corrupted and unreadable
Could someone please advise on recovery
Thank you

A:External HDD - K:/ is not accessible

Go to disk management and check what it is showing.Your disk may have changed from NTFS to RAW.

If it is the case, there are many programs which can recover data from RAW HDDsuch as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery (it is a shareware).

I have 3,5 HDD Box on USB with my SATA disk Samsung 750GB.
I have two partitions there F: G:

F: is 50GB Aciv partition of Other XP System (not important)
G: is important data partition with around of 680GB

F: is normally accessible, but G: is accessible only in Windows XP System.
When i plug the External drive to Windows 7, F: is normally fuction. But when i click to G:, it shows me "Access is Denied"
I don?t understand this, please help !

Hi,Can you go to Computer>Right Click>Properties>Security and check that you have full access to the partition.

If you do and it still does not work you could try this tutorial.Take Ownership of file - Vista Forums

Also,in disc management>control panel>amin tools>computermanagement>Disk Management (bottom left) and make sure the disc is a primary partition and that it also has a drive letter (im guessing it does).

Hello WD accessible external drive not I have an HP dv Notebook I ve been using an external hard drive Western Digital for years It has over GB of free space because I only use WD external drive not accessible it to store my university course work and my published works my most valued information I plugged it in this morning to only find that it would not show up under quot WD external drive not accessible Computer quot as WD like WD external drive not accessible it always had done This is what I have done to try to solve the situation Reboot Went to Computers Properties Device Manager The drive shows up under Disk Drives as quot WD BEA External USB Device quot AND under USB Serial Bus controllers as quot USB Mass Storage Device quot There is no yellow triangle with an exclamation mark and the drive is not assigned a letter SO I went back to the disk drive and right clicked so that I could allocate a letter but there are no options for this only Update diable unistall scan for changes and properties Then I went Disk Management scan disks to get a readout of my disks The external shows up as GB RAW Healthy Primary Partition This reading took forever to list the external I have received a notice once that the drive could not be accessed because I do not have permission The drive is write protected Don t know where this came from but I ve never had an issue before I hear a ding when I remove it from the USB port and a ding when it is plugged into the USB port It does not work on any of my computers Two with Vista and one with Windows XP Please someone be able to help me I have assignments due this week by Thursday and if I don t get access then I have to do them all over Plus my published books are on this drive If I can get access and transfer then I can rest easy nbsp

A:WD external drive not accessible

Have you tried removing all power from the drive for an hour, then try again?

One of my Seagate externals did exactly what yours did, I let it cool down over night with power disconnected, connected it back the next morning, copied some of my data off, but it went RAW on me again, so I put it in 2 layers of baggies and left it in the freezer for 1/2 hour, then set it in a small cooler of ice (baggies still on it) then I was able to finish copying data off of it (500gb), then I sent it back to Seagate for warranty.

when I connected it to my laptop, there's no autoplay and when I tried to open it via my computer, it says; G:\ is not accessible

error performing inpage operationI can't open it, and I can't scan it alsoit is new so I don't think it's because of the ageusing XP hereI have no idea what's going onanyone?

A:external harddisk not accessible

External drives are generally less reliable than internal ones. This is because of the connection interface inside the enclosure, rarely is it actually the drive itself. That's why the problem plagues external drives (all makes, not just WD) as compared to internal ones. Some say it's because the small enclosure (compared to a PC) restricts heat dissipation, especially in external drives without a cooling fan (and most don't have one).

Since it's new I would return it, either to the shop or to WD (you'll need to contact WD and ask for authorisation (an RMA) before returning it for replacement.

Hi guys firstly I'm new to this forum I currently have an issue on my notebook When I plug in any external hard drive it appears in disk management as well as quot my computer quot ie However when I try to access the hard drive I get this message I have researched this but can't accessible drives External not find anything posted anywhere I have tried resetting ownership but when I try to do that I get the same message Access denied This is not related to the drive as all external's I External drives not accessible plug in has the same result and I get the same result regardless of the usb port I plug the drives in to I have also tried restarting the laptop a few times Also I did not change any settings or anything I plugged in a friend's external and it started doing this I unplugged it and tried my external which was working fine and had the same result with that and every other external I've tried since Could it be a corrupt registry file Please assist urgently Thanks in advance

A:External drives not accessible

Hi ericksb,

Welcome to SevenForums.

The questions to be answered:

1. Were these externals accessible on this specific laptop before and suddenly turned inaccessible?

2. You tried your friend's external drive on this laptop and even that was not accessible. Did you try the other way - plugging in your externals into your friend's laptop?

To me it looks like that it is a company-owned laptop and the administrator has set it up that way - no USB storage devices.

I am having a problem with 2 external hardrives. The drives are in external enclosures and connected to my laptop via USB. My OS is XP.

When I first connect either drive, I sometimes get the requestor with the standard Open to View Files options, however sometime I don't and if I click on the drive icon in My Computer instead of being given the option to Open to View Files, it only gives me the Open With menu.

If the drive connects correctly and I get the Open to View Files option and open the drive, if I then close that window I am then unable to re-open the drive to see the files.

This is really frustrating and I've searched all over the place to figure out whats going on.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help My accessible External not Drive Western Digital External Drive has quit on me I External Drive not accessible have read the forum and found I am neither the only one w this problem but the source for help I found was for a laptop I have a WD GB external drive I was moving filves from my PC to the External HD when I got an error stating the file path does not exist half way through From that point on I could not access my External HD External Drive not accessible Each time I External Drive not accessible plug it up it simply says quot New Hardware Found quot but yet no driver update will allow my PC to recognize it I ve tried it on two PCs one running Windows XP and the other Vista Home note both have always reconginzed the drive on just plug-play I had even feared I had some how over burn or went over my capacity but I was no where close If someone has found a solution or knows of something I can do I have no idea of what steps to even start with outside of contact Western Digital nbsp

I want to copy photos from my computer to a CD in my E drive My first problem was that the E drive did not show up as one of my options when I went to quot Send quot the files I went to quot My Computer quot and double clicked the "E:\ Function" Incorrect is Accessible. not E drive and that s when I got the above remark see title of this thread I tried right clicking on the E drive and checked quot properties quot and found that the pie for the E drive is completely blue which supposedly means full I am using a brand new CD and I tried several other blanks just to be sure I don t know what to do next I am not very knowledgeable about computers so if anyone can help me--I would really appreciate it But--please lead me step by step--I know just enough to get around To most of you I am probably the age of "E:\ is not Accessible. Incorrect Function" your grandmother--so be kind nbsp

A:"E:\ is not Accessible. Incorrect Function"

Do you have any CD/DVD burning software?It usually ships with a new system...

I have just upgraded to Win 7 and want to use old hard drive (Seagate 500 gb) as external usb drive. Other drives work just fine in the caddy. However, when I connect this Seagate drive it does not show up in disk management. In device management it does show as USB Mass Storage Device. I've tried 'uninstalling devices' - it gets stuck and won't complete. Any ideas?

Hello,I connected my existing external HDD (@USB2.0) to a new PC with Win 8.1. From the beginning all partitions mounted properly and were accessible as expected but later suddenly the first partition was not accessible due to insufficiant access rights. All other partitions keep being accessible except this one. I wonder how this could happen, especially when it's a FAT32 format partition (no eser-level security support) The exact errors I'm receiving are these:

Currently you don't have permissions to access this folder.For obtaining permanent access to this folder,click on the option Continue.

If I click Continue I get this warning:

Permission to access this folder was denied.For obtaining access to this folder, you'll have to use security tab.

If I click the Security tab link, I get properties dialog for that partition opened, however no Security tab is available (oviously, this is a FAT32 volume)

Hi everyone I m new to this forum amp and I amp ve already got a problem I have a GB Samsung Spinpoint F in an Antec Veris MX- that I formatted via the eSATA cable on my brother s HD Accessible recognized but External not SATA computer a XP Pro-SP box After taking External SATA HD recognized but not Accessible forever for the External SATA HD recognized but not Accessible drive to format I backed up my files and shut everything down The next day I could only access the hard drive when I connect it and restart the External SATA HD recognized but not Accessible computer If I connect it with either the eSATA or USB cable without restarting nothing happens Not a problem I thought when I took it home I ll just need to restart my computer when I need the drive Unfortunately I can t access it on any computer I ve tried laptops desktops running on XP home all the way to Vista The drive will be recognized as new hardware and I can see it in the Device Manager but not in Disk Management I even tried removing it from the enclosure and hook it up directly to a computer This resulted in not even finding the drive in the Device Manager I took it back to my brother amp s computer and it works fine if I connect then restart Could this is be a jumper problem or the fact that I formatted the drive externally Any help would be appreciated Thanks nbsp

I have an external hard drive case, that I have been using to access a variety of IDE drives via USB for quite some time. I recently attached it to a new computer -- it was detected, installed, recognized as IDE to USB, appears in My Computer/Explorer, even the make of HD noted. When I attempt to open it I get a message stating that it is 'not accessible...... because of an I/O error'. Message the same for any HD installed in case. Still works fine on old computer but I am trying to migrate everything to the new system. Another similar setup for notebook hard drives works on both computers...'Case' is USB 2.0 as is new computer. Old computer is USB 1.1'Case' powered by adapter not USB.All computers running WinXP Home.

Hi I harddrive accessible. just being stopped External have an external harddrive on a USB port that I have been using for ages without problems Yesterday it just stopped being accessible for no apparent reason The machine quot sees quot it as the F drive but can't access it If I try to External harddrive just stopped being accessible. double click on the F drive the machine takes aaaaaages green quot busy bar quot slowly tracking and then I eventually get an error that says quot F is not accessible quot - as per this image So I assumed the drive had died But to test that I plugged it into my g f's old XP machine and it accessed the drive with no problems whatsoever The only other thing I could think to try was to look in disc management But even though the is an F drive showing in explorer as per the above image it doesn't even show up in disc management So in exasperation I did a quot refresh quot of my system A bit of a drastic step but I thought maybe it was time for a cleanup anyway But after the refresh was done STILL the same problem Exactly as per the above images the machine quot sees quot the F drive but nothing is accessible So I am at my wits end I really hope someone can help me because I really need access to that drive Thanks a million The bootifool

A:External harddrive just stopped being accessible.

CRC error, means the drive is dying. Could also be that the board inside the enclosure went bad. These things only have a finite life.

Below you will find my email communication to the company Maxtor Hard External Accessible Drive Not that manufactured my external GB hard drive You will also find their response I would really appreciate External Hard Drive Not Accessible it if somebody could confirm their diagnosis and point me in a direction to fix the problem the cheapest way possible The drive is fairly new not under warranty and barely used There s like GB of stuff stored on there most of which I don t need However I have a huge portfolio that I do need but do not want to pay close to to have an outside company retrieve How do partitions get deleted Also the drive has never been dropped or exposed to heat In your opinion is this a manufacturing defect with the drive that will most likely continue to be a problem Thanks to everybody that reads and ponders and replies to this thread It is MUCH appreciated I used this site once before and had wonderful results You ve managed to make things clear enough that even with my quot beginner quot computer skills I can make sense of most directions Keep up the great work Customer PM I have a Maxtor LS Maxtor A RES C K When originally installing it and I had to download the drivers because I have Windows SE months ago I noticed that it would only be accessible after the computer had been restarted If the computer had been in use a couple hours I usually couldn t access files saved to the external drive For a couple weeks now the external drive has been completely unaccessible It still loads in the task bar and detects when I remove it However I cannot get to any of the contents of the drive I ve tried downloading the drivers again but I can t get the New Hardware Wizard to pop up When I manually start the wizard it doesn t download the hardware needed or says the best driver has already been installed According to the information on your website it is supposed to detect tppfx inf but that isn t the one it considers best Does that have anything to do with this This drive has been a pain from the beginning and I would really appreciate it if someone can help me get it in working order Thank you for your help and time Customer PM I tried plugging the drive into another computer with Windows XP Once again the computer recognized the new hardware and the icon appeared in the task bar However the drive did not have an icon in My Computer The drive was not an option to save a Word document to either Customer PM Ok back on the Windows SE computer where I want to use this external drive I went into the Device Manager under universal serial bus controllers and hard drives It says Hardware Version Not Available The Device Status is quot This device is working properly quot Under quot Driver quot it says quot No driver files are required or haven been loaded for this device quot I ve also tried redownloading the drivers in safe mode However under quot Universal Serial Bus Controllers quot under quot Drivers quot it gives me details on drivers for the product Response TSBrian PM Dear Janelle Thank you for sending your MAXTOR E-mail inquiry Since your Maxtor LS drive is detected and the Device Manager reports that the device is working properly the drive is working fine and you already have the drivers for it installed If the drive does not appear as a drive letter in My Computer however that indicates the partition on this drive may have been deleted Unfortunately Maxtor does not have any software to repair or recover data from deleted partitions If you need to recover the data from this drive I suggest searching on the web for a third party data recovery utility or contacting a data recovery service For the data recovery information from our web site please check out the following link http maxtor custhelp com cgi-bin maxtor cfg php enduser olh adp php p faqid Once you have recovered the data from this drive the drive will need to be repartitioned and formatted in order to become accessible as a drive letter again The easiest way... Read more

A:External Hard Drive Not Accessible

Here's what I would do but you may wait for others to reply with their ideas. I would take the drive out of the external enclosure and hook it up as a slave in the PC. If the system picks it up and your data is readable, then you've got other problems and you can trouble shoot from there. If it's not readable, then Maxtor may be correct. Good luck.

Hi,I have external usb hard drive (SATA) 1Tb. It was working flawlessly before. But now I can't access it. However, my laptop recognizes it and can be seen in 'My Computer, Device Manager and Disk management'.What should I do?Any help would be appreciated.

A:External hard drive is not accessible

Hello Neo10!

This is quite unpleasant of a situation you have.Is this an external device by design or an internal hard drive connected via USB?This could be a driver issue. Make sure you have updated the drivers for the device and the USB drivers of your PC. Also, has the drive always shown with this drive number (I: ) or is this a first? This may actually be another device or slot of the PC and your drive may actually not be seen at all. Connect it to another computer and see what happens.

Ok, here's what I did. Tried loading Ubuntu on an older pc w/xp on the external hd. Worked with it a bit and could not get xp to load again...had to reformat and reload xp...no problem. Anyway, when I plug in the external hd to any pc, I cannot find it when I go to 'my computer'. It is only a small (20gb) hard drive, so I use it for music files. Little green light comes on, so I know it's getting power. any ideas?

Hello I am running Windows Vista on a Dell Computer I have previously used my Toshiba External Hard Drive on the Hard Drive External Accessible Not computer however after i reinstalled windows it does not work I connect the External Hard Drive Not Accessible USB port from the Hard Drive to the Computer the light on the Hard Drive turns on The computer recognized it and installed the proper drivers External Hard Drive Not Accessible When I go to quot Computer quot I do not see my hard drive in the Hard Drive Section I however do see a quot Removable Disk U quot In the quot External Hard Drive Not Accessible Devices with Removable Storage quot I double click the quot Removable Disk U quot and I receive the following text quot Please insert a disk into Removable Disk U quot When I click start and right click on quot Computer quot click Manage I arrive at Computer Management Under Storage i click on Disk Management and in the bottom portion I see Drives Disk Basic GB ONLINE and there are Sections next to that one has no label and says MB HEALTHY the next RECOVERY D GB NTFS HEALTHY and the last one C GB NTFS HEALTHY Under Disk I see Disk Removable U No Media However when I right click on it and click Properties Toshiba USB Drive R USB DRIVE under device status it says This Device is working properly So I see that my computer does recognize my External Hard drive but I can not access it at all This is becoming very frusterating I have tried many solutions on google however none of them have worked for me Please help me access it Thanks in advance nbsp

I recently bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 200GB HD and built up an external USB drive by putting it into one of those external enclosures. When I power up the USB device, it shows up as USB Mass Storage Device, however no drive letter gets associated andd it does not show in Explorer. I already played with the jumper on the drive (DS Master, CS Enabled, or no jumper at all. No luck....

A:External Hard Drive not accessible

Did you partition and format it? Return the jumper to Master, and format it.

Right click on My Computer, Manage, Disk Management. Find the external drive, and right click on it. You may have to initialize it, then create a partition (I recommend extended, not primary), and then one or more logical drives. It will then show up in My Computer.

i just bought a toshiba portege 610ct. it came with an external toshiba external floppy drive pa2652u (a:\)whenever i try to access it windows 98 tells me "A:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready" please help me with this. I have no idea how to go about finding out what this problem is, so please feel free to point out the ovious"excepting the spelling" thanx for any help you can give.

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A:external floppy drive (A:\) not accessible

Is it plugged in when you power up?

Are you sure that is the right drive for that model machine? I looked at Toshiba's website and they don't have a part number - just says "included with product"

I have an external hard drive that has two partitions I had the Windows upgrade installation file from Digital River on the first partition I ran the install from there and everything installed fine within XP Then I went back to the external hard drive to get some other Partition windows external accessible in on hdd not 7 programs to install and it told me that the drive is not accessible However it shows me both drive letters and I am able to read the other partition fine It just Partition on external hdd not accessible in windows 7 will not see the first one If I put the drive on another computer it is able to see the drive and all the data So I am wondering if it locks you out of the partition from which you run the installation and if so is there anyway to get access back to it I have already put XP back on the computer and I am going to try it a different way and then see if I have access to the first external hdd

A:Partition on external hdd not accessible in windows 7

Ok, so I reinstalled XP and then installed 7 from a USB stick and the drive is now visible. So I can only assume it can't see the drive it is installed from.

Hi All External Hard drive not accessible I have TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim gb cloud Hard Drive It was working fine on Win earlier I formatted my desktop and installed win OS since then my exernal hard drive is not initializing My external hdd was not connected while the formatting n installation process I tried all the possibilities which i can do to detect the hdd it is not detected in My Computer-Device Manager-Drive-Disk Management but it can be seen accessible... not Hard drive External in device amp printer Finally I updated win to win still is was not detecting Then in Device manager - Storage Controller - Right Clicked USB ATTACHED SCSI UAS Mass Storage Device and Clicked Enable option on dropdown menu and then Seagate BUP Plus Slim BK SCSI Disk Device shown in Device Manager - Drive amp Disk Management Now in Disk management it displays Disk unknown External Hard drive not accessible... Not Initialized - Unallocated I need help as i m Photographer n all my important data is stored in this external drive

A:External Hard drive not accessible...

Have you tried plugging it into a different computer?

I have not tried their data recovery software, but their partitioning software is second to none so I would expect their data recovery software to be as well:
MiniTool data recovery software ? Power Data Recovery and Mac Data Recovery.

Also, do you have a router with a USB port? If you do, you might try plugging into the router.

Hi drive External Hard not accessible... All External Hard drive not accessible I have TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim gb cloud Hard Drive It was working fine on Win earlier External Hard drive not accessible... I formatted my desktop and installed win OS since then my exernal hard drive is not initializing My external hdd was not connected while the formatting n installation process I tried all the possibilities which i can do to detect the hdd it is not detected in My Computer-Device Manager-Drive-Disk Management but it can be seen in device amp printer Finally I updated win to win still is was not detecting Then in Device manager - Storage Controller - Right Clicked USB ATTACHED SCSI UAS Mass Storage Device and Clicked Enable option on dropdown menu and then Seagate BUP Plus Slim BK SCSI Disk Device shown in Device Manager - Drive amp Disk Management Now in Disk management it displays Disk unknown Not Initialized - Unallocated I need help as i m Photographer n all my important data is stored in this external drive

I have windows 7 32 bit on a toshiba laptop. I am posting becuase this is a strange situation. I have a goflex exteral terrabyte. The computer recognizes it, lists it in the device manager and claims that it is working properly. However, I can't access it, I can't save anything to it, or get anything from it, or even see the files on it.

Now, I have a mac and a pc, the drive said it could be used on both. So i first used it on the mac (and it works perfectly) but not on the pc. It there a share error maybe?

Any help would be appreciated. I am an editor and I was hoping to be able to easily move from my computer (mac) to my clients (pc).

Thank You for any help or opinions you can give.

Misti StantonDallas, TX

P.S. the drives are up to date.

A:External Hard Drive Detected but not Accessible

Hi Misti,

The first use of the drive was on the Mac, is that correct? And there is no problem on the Mac - right?i really don't have an answer, but I've had issues with my own ext HD. The original system I connected it to was XP, then a Vista machine. the HD would request me to chkdsk every time I plugged it in. Then I could see the files and on some volumes access them. Other volumes were set as read-only. After some time just being attached, the HD would mark itself offline.

It will help if you can post a full screen snapshot of Disk Managment.

I keep my music on a 500GB external hard drive (no, it's not full...), along with cd images and other random stuff. I installed Windows 7 Professional on both my desktop computer and my Dell Mini 9 Netbook, enjoying it thoroughly. However, I can't access my music folder on my external hard drive when i plug it into the netbook. I initially had the external hard drive plugged into the desktop, so I'm guessing there's a permissions problem.

What I want to do is completely make the folder accessible to everyone. I don't want any restrictions on it whatsoever. How do I do this? I'm a Windows XP Home person, so I know nothing of file permissions.

Thanks,

--Red

A:Folder not accessible on external hard drive

Hello,

Have you tried Taking Ownership of the folder?

To share it, right-click on the folder, and click on Advanced Sharing. You should have no trouble figuring it out from there, but if you do, we will be happy to help you.

Hi,
I have been using an external USB Western Digital 'Elements' desktop storage drive as my main backup for a couple of years now without any problems. Over the last 48 hours the drive doesn't seem to be registering in 'My Computer' or 'Disk Management'? My Folder options are also showing Show hidden files option.
I've looked at other Forums and the suggestion is that the OS is at fault, I have also tried the External Drive on my Laptop and it worked fine. The other issue, which I believe is also connected to this one is that my secondary internal drive is also not showing?
Thanks for you help.
Jim
ps there was a moment last night when it was actually working but when I attempted to back up some files I received an error note advising me that the Drive was unknown, it has been inaccessible since then.

A:External Drive not accessible therefore not visible in 'My Computer'

Hello simmyjiff!

If the drive is working on your laptop just fine, then the problem isn't with it. You could be having a hardware issue with your other PC.

What is your secondary internal drive as make and model? Is it also completely gone from the system? Could you please provide us with your motherboard model, a list of all your storage devices and a screenshot of your Disk Management.

Also, if the two now not-working devices load successfully to your laptop, back them up through there, just in case.

Then check if your BIOS on the problematic PC needs updating, if you have all necessary USB drivers and clean the OS from viruses, malware, do a Disk Clean up.

Hello everyone! I am making backup from my videos and pdf's etc and now when i was trying to again access on folder it claims that it is not accessible. Any help on why and how this has happened and how i will fix it?

I had previously converted external hard drive to ntfs form from fat32 so i think i might have problem on rights. Folder information does not show any files or subfolders

A:external flash hard drive: I:\folder is not accessible

Put the flash back into the system where you made the backup and make sure it is still viable. You may have to re-format the stick, then copy the videos over again.

there is a reason why those flash sticks some formatted fat32, sometimes they cant hack NTFS. Best thing to do is format the stick on the system where you are going to be putting the copies, then go back and make the backup on the original puter.

I have the above USB 2.0 external HDD* with important data that I'd like to access on my Win7 machine. It isn't assigned a drive letter in Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management, and the only available options on the context menu are 'Delete Volume...' and 'Help'. I also can't seem to see it under Diskpart via admin command prompt.

* Inputting 'Seagate 100662969' (the model number on the HDD cradle) into Google brings up this model on the Seagate site.

My friends sends me a link which eventually leads to it being a trojan horse that infects my computer. It completely takes over, disabling all my anti virus, not allowing me to run or install any type of anti virus, and even blocking websites that offer virus removal help (re-routing of IP). In an effort to fix my computer, I used the windows CD and tried to use the repair and recovery mode to reinstall windows. Now the computer just hangs and nothing can be done.

The good thing is that I can still access my harddrive as an external on another computer via sata usb cables. My question is whether there is a way for me to try and fix the boot and startup files on my computer so that I can salvage my computer and fix it the right way? Thanks so much and happy thanksgiving!

A:Harddrive unable to boot, but fully accessible when used as external

I have the above USB 2.0 external HDD* with important data that I'd like to access on my Win7 machine. It isn't assigned a drive letter in Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management, and the only available options on the context menu are 'Delete Volume...' and 'Help'. I also can't seem to see it under Diskpart via admin command prompt.

* Inputting 'Seagate 100662969' (the model number on the HDD cradle) into Google brings up this model on the Seagate site.

Hello, I am having issues with my external hard drive. I cannot access the drive from computer or device manager. I do see the icon for the drive listed but any left or right-click freezes explorer. The drive is a 1TB Iomega USB drive. I have tried to run chkdsk on it but it will not run. I do not have access to another computer at this time to see if the drive works elsewhere.

2 things : I have gotten a popup on startup that I need to reformat the drive to be able to use it AND I have also seen the cyclic redudancy check error box. After searching for answers I believe the problem may have been caused by 1 or more instances of power loss to drive while connected to my desktop pc.

help I have wd my passport gb external hdd yesterday I tried to copy a file from my hdd and it fails I searched the internet and I think it have bad sectors so I try to scan for bad sectors with hddscan it s my first time I run the surface test and I found out that my hdd have about bad sectors everything works just fine after that until I unplug the usb cable from my laptop and plug it into my computer when I open windows explorer I can see the hdd drive but couldn t open it it just freeze until a message popped up it says quot incorrect parameter quot please help I need the data really bad my whole life depends on it and it s my fault I didn t do any backup before so am External inaccessible, parameter incorrect HDD I dead yet oh and I m a total noob if you need any additional information please tell me how to get it please any kind of help would be appreciated nbsp

A:External HDD inaccessible, incorrect parameter

Physically, I think your HDD is stuffed. Sad to say.Bad sectors are often a sign that the drive is about to completely fail. Bad sectors are unrepairable so it will make your HDD considerably smaller in Volume.

There is software out there that can claim to fix some bad sectors, but I would put my money to a new HDD.

When I connected (first time) to my Windows 8.1 desktop (EFI/EUFI BIOS) it detects the drive but gets parameter incorrect msg. In the System eventlog there were many entries with error Event ID 51. Windows didn't stop trying to access the disk.

PC has Asus Z97 Pro MB. The disk has just 1 big data partition. I have no clue.

A:External 3T disk gets parameter incorrect msg

Since you were running Windows 7, possibly the drive was set up using the Legacy (MBR) configuration and some software was used to make all 3 TB accessible. If you did not do that, possibly the drive came configured using software to make it all accessible.

If this is the situation, is there any way for you to save your date and convert the drive to GPT, or reinstall the software originally used to make it accessible? On a large drive, only 2.2 GB is accessible using the Legacy configuration unless something is used to make it accessible.